DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS

This paper describes the analysis, using the software package NUDIST 2.3, of interview data from a qualitative study of young drug injectors and their risk of HIV/AIDS. The aims and processes of the study are briefly described, and the method of analysis detailed. NUDIST 2.3 is a sophisticated compu...

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Main Author: Loxley, Wendy
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2001
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11029
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description This paper describes the analysis, using the software package NUDIST 2.3, of interview data from a qualitative study of young drug injectors and their risk of HIV/AIDS. The aims and processes of the study are briefly described, and the method of analysis detailed. NUDIST 2.3 is a sophisticated computer software system for managing, organising and supporting qualitative data analysis. The data for this study consisted of word for word transcripts of 105 90-minute interviews: the management and organisation of this quantity of data was a formidable task in itself and this will be described, as will the development of initial coding frames (with cautionary tales) and the process by which increasing levels of analytic abstraction were generated. Reliability and validity has been held by some researchers to be irrelevant to qualitative research, but this is not the position adopted by this study. The paper ends with a discussion on reliability and validity and how such issues were addressed in the analysis.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-110292018-12-14T00:48:03Z DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS Loxley, Wendy youth injecting drug use - HIV/AIDS - research This paper describes the analysis, using the software package NUDIST 2.3, of interview data from a qualitative study of young drug injectors and their risk of HIV/AIDS. The aims and processes of the study are briefly described, and the method of analysis detailed. NUDIST 2.3 is a sophisticated computer software system for managing, organising and supporting qualitative data analysis. The data for this study consisted of word for word transcripts of 105 90-minute interviews: the management and organisation of this quantity of data was a formidable task in itself and this will be described, as will the development of initial coding frames (with cautionary tales) and the process by which increasing levels of analytic abstraction were generated. Reliability and validity has been held by some researchers to be irrelevant to qualitative research, but this is not the position adopted by this study. The paper ends with a discussion on reliability and validity and how such issues were addressed in the analysis. 2001 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11029 fulltext
spellingShingle youth injecting drug use - HIV/AIDS - research
Loxley, Wendy
DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title_full DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title_fullStr DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title_full_unstemmed DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title_short DROWNING IN WORDS? USING NUDIST TO ASSIST IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONG INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FROM YOUNG INJECTING DRUG USERS
title_sort drowning in words? using nudist to assist in the analysis of long interview transcripts from young injecting drug users
topic youth injecting drug use - HIV/AIDS - research
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11029